Neither the Postal Service nor Amazon offered any comments on the Trump tweets.

But a number of media outlets challenged the president’s statements.

The Washington Post, which is owned by Bezos, noted that the president has previously tweeted about Amazon and the Postal Service “even though officials have explained to him that Amazon’s contracts with the Postal Service are profitable for the agency.”

“Trump’s distortions don’t add up and are worthy of Three Pinocchios,” said a Washington Post article, assessing the president’s latest statements.

Other publications noted that package volumes at the Postal Service have risen, while letter volume, once a mainstay of postal revenues, have continued to drop.

Several newspapers noted that White House officials were suggesting that the president had no plans for executive actions that might effect the Amazon-USPS deal.

Postal officials have long wanted the White House to pay attention to its years of running multibillion dollar deficits, but the attacks that Trump had made on the agency are not the type of scrutiny that they had sought.

Details of the Amazon shipping agreement with Postal Service are secret.

The Postal Regulatory Commission, which examines such contracts, has held that they are profitable to Postal Service.